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RE: .38-50 Hepburn - ian45662 - 09-26-2022
Shot another match with it. We shot 28 on both days. 2 chickens Saturday and 5 Sunday. Winds were really really bad on Sunday. A few times I thought we might loose the roof that is over our firing line. In spite of that the 38 held its own. Since the friendship debacle I have shortened my brass and that seems to have made things much much better. My brass is about .008 short of the chamber. I used LDPE wads for this match and had poly rings but no paper rings but either way. This thing is shooting really really well. Sunday on rams I tried using unsized bullets and that almost cost me the match. For whatever reason the unsized bullets gave me a ton of verticals. They are really really hard to chamber and I am not able to push them in with thumb pressure. The projectiles that are sized to .364 before patching chamber very easy and they shoot so well. Next match is here in a few weeks. We will try it at 1200 yards which will be very interesting.
RE: .38-50 Hepburn - beltfed - 09-26-2022
Ian,
".464" ???
I suppose that is .364"????
The bore in my 38-50 is a slip fit bore ride of 0.366"
Arnie
PS How are the rods working?
RE: .38-50 Hepburn - ian45662 - 09-26-2022
Yes 364. I must have hit the wrong button.
RE: .38-50 Hepburn - ian45662 - 09-26-2022
(09-26-2022, 08:31 AM)beltfed Wrote: Ian,
".464" ???
I suppose that is .364"????
The bore in my 38-50 is a slip fit bore ride of 0.366"
Arnie
PS How are the rods working?
I have not used them yet but I suspect that they will work just fine. I have another jag set up that I want to try with your rod but I didn’t want to try it for the first time at a match.
RE: .38-50 Hepburn - ian45662 - 10-12-2022
Anyone heard from Kurt lately?
RE: .38-50 Hepburn - Don McDowell - 10-12-2022
Looks like he logged in a couple of days ago, and he's posted a couple of times on Cast Bullets and the 24hr. campfire.
RE: .38-50 Hepburn - ian45662 - 10-17-2022
It has taken almost a season but I think we have this thing shooting where I want it. Winds were switchy. They weren’t as bad as I have seen them before but they were definitely present. We figured 20-25mph gusts.
RE: .38-50 Hepburn - Nuclearcricket - 10-17-2022
Congrats and very nice shooting.
Sam
RE: .38-50 Hepburn - JKR - 10-17-2022
(10-17-2022, 05:23 AM)ian45662 Wrote: It has taken almost a season but I think we have this thing shooting where I want it. Winds were switchy. They weren’t as bad as I have seen them before but they were definitely present. We figured 20-25mph gusts.
Nicely done!
Many would consider that to be a long way to shoot a rifle!
JKR
RE: .38-50 Hepburn - Hiwall55 - 10-17-2022
Congratulations Ian,very good shooting.